Dig in to the tradition and history of letterpress printing and get your hands dirty. Learn about the process and practice of setting type while printing your own cards.

The four class Cylinder Core Certificate Program allows students to quickly learn letterpress basics and become certified to rent studio time.

Build your letterpress skills: learn advanced justification, typesetting, and composition. Put it all together to print a broadside of your own design.

Create a kaleidoscopic accordion book inspired by the symmetry of mandalas.

Our Bookbinding Core Certificate Program introduces students to four different binding models, leading them through the history and evolution of bookmaking.

If you’ve ever been curious about how to make a book, Introduction to Bookbinding is the place to start. One workshop, five booklets!

A book structure with personality built into the cover, buttonhole books allow for exposed sewing and decorative cuts that give a window from the outside in.

Explore the unique capabilities and three-dimensional movement of the flag book—a structure composed of crisscrossing “flags” or small pages attached to an accordion-folded spine.

In this second Core Bookbinding class, students will create what most of us refer to as a hardbound book. In bookbinding terms, it is known as a case binding.

This course will introduce the student familiar with bookbinding to key practices within basic book repair.

In this introductory class, student will gain a basic understanding of the history, techniques, tools, and styles of European marbling.

Imagine a personal history made up of maps and charts. What stories would yours tell? In this workshop you'll create a suite of maps, charts, and graphs to make your own autobiographical atlas.

This introduction to leatherwork for bookbinding covers the tools and techniques commonly used in leather bookbinding today.

Discover how to dampen paper, use bearers, and finesse rubber-and oil-based inks on Cylinder and Jobbing Platen Presses for better ink coverage and control.

Make a leather-covered cylinder box with a slip-fit lid.

If you’ve ever been curious about how to make a book, Introduction to Bookbinding is the place to start. One workshop, five booklets!

While bookbinding and book repair share many skills and techniques, they are also distinct pursuits. This course is intended to introduce the student familiar with bookbinding to key practices within basic book repair.

A rare family workshop at SFCB! Adults and kids will work together to create designs and print their creations.

Is it a book, is it a sculpture, is it a toy? When using the Ziggurat Fold you can create something that is all three, and more. In this class we’ll use its intriguing mathematical quality to create a castle-like structure that expands from flat to 3D.

The final class in our Core Bookbinding series uses skills learned in each previous class to create a beautiful and classic rounded back cloth binding.

Learn to print from photopolymer plates in this final Core course; walk away with a stack of stationery featuring digital artwork printed from polymer plates.

This marbling lab takes the art of traditional paper marbling to a new level by introducing metallics to the pigments normally used and experimenting with over-marbling techniques.

After taking Orientation to Leather, put your paring skills to use in making this simple and elegant leather binding.

Join us for a monthly community drawing meetup with new exercises each session.

Colorful and fun, this method of decorating paper is easy to learn and the papers created can be used for many purposes.

If you’ve ever been curious about how to make a book, Introduction to Bookbinding is the place to start. One workshop, five booklets!

Hey you, finicky readers out there! Tired of having to wrestle with your beloved books as you read them? This class is for you. In this workshop, we will take a paperback book and transform it into something more durable and easier to flex and open.